麦豆悦读英文绘本讲师训练营【第15】期---12/21--绘本赏析--《Pink Snow and other weird weather》

15期1501 张雯-Vicky

今天介绍一本科普书，严格意义上来讲，是一本分级读物。Penguin Young Readers 精选了多种题材和种类的少儿读物，其中包括了经典童话、小说，也有非虚构类作品比如人物传记，题材丰富内容经典，该套书的另一大特色在于拥有一套科学合理的分级系统，由独立书评家采用美国著名阅读专家艾琳·方塔斯和盖苏·皮奈尔开发的标准，并以颜色分明的标签明确标示。

这本书是朋友送的，我看是level 3,说是适合5-10岁，真的不假，Iris太爱了，因为里面很多有趣的现象竟然是真的。随便感受一下下哈：

You are outside playing. And it starts to snow. Yippee!

But wait! There is something strange about this snow. It is dark pink! Pink snow? It is dark pink! Pink snow? Is it possible? Yes! Snow is not always white. Every once in a while snow can be a different color.

How does this happen? Snow is made in clouds. Sometimes strong winds pick up tiny bits of red soil and dust. These bits of soil are blown up into snow clouds. Snow forms around red soil. The snow looks dark pink!

Most people never see pink snow. It is very rare. It is very weird. But sometimes the weather does very weird things. It is very hot when it should be cold.

Or very cold when it should be hot. Or strange things rain down from the sky.

没错，我当时就觉得是一本小孩儿幻想的读本，没想到是我知识太匮乏了。。。当我读到有frogs从天上下下来的时候，Iris简直笑翻了：Sometimes the waterspout will move over dry land. When it starts to die out, the frogs or fish fall to the ground.还有一知己被龙卷风扒光了毛，光屁股在大街上走。。真不敢想象如此科普读物，读的这么有趣，在笑声中就学到了科学。

一个人被雷电打过7次的人你信么？哈哈，真人真事哦。如果作为绘本拓展，提前准备一些真假问答题目，来个“知识竞赛”，看看自个儿的娃是否真的是百科全书哦，相信孩子一定不觉得你是在考她，一起比比看，我知道的可真的没有Iris多呢。。。